Yesterday, I was out with other members of our local Enough is Enough raising money for the strike funds of Nurses and Ambulance Drivers, Postal Workers and Railway workers at a tube station near where I live in London. This has been happening since the wave of strikes started in December and is continuing through January. We go out for 2 hours, hand out leaflets and ask people to contribute to strike funds. Yesterday, two local Labour Party Councillors joined us. So far, we have raised almost 1,500. The point of this is not only to raise funds for strikers, it is to help build solidarity for striking workers.

Moreover, one quarter of what we raise is going to a local food bank; usage of food banks by even workers in full-time employment has risen significantly and it is very worrying. When Margaret Thatcher said society is dead, she obviously crowed too early. Despite decades of ideological individualist nonsense shoved down the throats of people in this country, the ideology didn’t take hold and that became clear during the Covid pandemic. While the government did nothing for people during the pandemic, it led to the creation of mutual aid groups and collections for food banks. Shaking a bucket to help striking workers and a food bank brings support even in a period of high inflation and economic crisis.

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